Meghan’s new insta feed

[Crispynoodle]

Meghan has just popped a video clip of herself in the back of a limo with her feet up travelling through the streets of Paris. Is this rather insensitive given the way her MIL died or is it perfectly normal to post such stuff?

She also uses the word ‘masstige’ which I’ve never heard before.

It means-
‘mass-produced, relatively inexpensive goods that are marketed as luxurious or prestigious.’

Yet another Ratner moment for Megs.

Is she saying that’s what she sells @AtIusvue ?
Is As ever continuing or is that too much hard work ?

Yes, her product line is ‘masstige’

I kind of admire her tenacity. One thing fails so she jumps right onto the bandwagon behind. I really did think that she and Harry would have lived quietly in the US for a few years, then chosen some charities/foundations to support and been their voices on the global stage. Instead they've gone solely for self promotion and it's all just turned out to be a bit grubby.

Kinsey Schofield said the other day some people she knows working on a documentary put through an order for some As Ever products recently. They were then contacted to tell them the stock was unavailable and refunded. If she can't restock white good pancake mix, I think the As Ever era is over. She's recently rolled out some white wine, but apparently there's been a lot of over-production/surplus stock of generic wine this year, so maybe she bought it cheap as a last hurrah.

I don’t see tenacity. She doesn’t stick to anything long enough to make it work. She encounters set backs and gives up. Her short lived period in the royal family exemplifies this. She’s on yet another PR relaunch now promoting herself as a fashionista after the lifestyle and humanitarian brands failed. I think she sticks to nothing because the only thing she cares about is being rich and famous. She’s not passionate about anything.

@JSMill has nailed it .
I honestly can’t see her being a fashionista given the many outfit disasters.

I agree. As soon as it becomes evident that whatever she is trying her hand at requires actual work and commitment, she loses interest and
gives up. She looks for shortcuts and when they don’t materialise, she moves on to something else. It may well be that she is often in the headlines, but she is treading water in terms of achieving anything. If she even knows what she wants to achieve other than accumulating plaudits and stuff 🤷‍♀️

“She’s really a one woman publicity machine, but to what end who can say …. Lady Colin Campbell in a YouTube video the other day wondered if Meghan Markle simply wanted to become the most famous woman on the planet; that she didn’t care one iota whether or not she was liked or respected. Just rich and (in)famous is what is most important to her.”

It’s an interesting idea @Seahantbut I don’t think that’s Meghan’s game - despite her unbelievable brass neck she’s incredibly thin skinned. I think she’s desperate to be admired and praised, which’s why she goes around insisting she’s the kindest, bestest, most caring friend in the whole world and humanitarian. Not one bit of her can admit any fault or wrongdoing, or laugh at herself, let alone own any kind of villain persona - just look at her reaction when Mariah Carey playfully called her a diva - she had to make a point of breathlessly emoting her shock and dismay at being called a diva, until she realised Mariah just meant it as a compliment to how fabulous she is. Not one part of her could acknowledge even the tiniest bit that she might exhibit some diva like behaviours. In her Confessions podcast, she couldn’t bring herself to own up to any mistakes in the launching of her business, such as the ginormous gaffe of launching the brand under a name she hadn’t trademarked let alone having any products even nearly ready for sale.

She wants to be admired and praised ✅
She will never admit fault (ever) ✅
She will never admit any failure ✅

I agree @elessar that she doesn’t like the criticism as such, and is sensitive to it at least when it first strikes. But within a short time she will dismiss it out of hand. It is other people who are the problem in her mind and so she will ignore it or kick back. (Anyone who has met a narcissist in this frame of mind will know how this works: they are never wrong, ever).

That might explain how she seems Teflon-coated and just gets right back up again, almost like a terminator. In fact that’s a bit what she looked like strutting in that white outfit at the French Fashion show. I think the dreadful twerking video was another desperate stunt for attention. She must have known people would be be shocked. It’s so desperate!

So the idea expressed on Lady C’s video was that if she can’t be “adored” she is perfectly happy to be “disliked”. On one level it doesn’t matter - as long as she’s FAMOUS! Or INFAMOUS! (and ideally rich).

My point about the twerking people is that if people found it offensive and there was “bad” publicity - she doesn’t care!!

Having a teflon coating is an ideal quality for a member of the RF, yet instead the experience had apparently reduced her to a nervous wreck who was merely ‘surviving’.

“Part of what we're testing out now—it's amazing to be able to sit and watch a show for 30 minutes, but how can I give you a recipe in two minutes? Where can I share that with you and how does that continue to grow As Ever?”

Cough ᵀᶦᵏᵀᵒᵏ , ʸᵒᵘᵗᵘᵇᵉ ᴵⁿˢᵗᵃᵍʳᵃᵐ Cough.

She also didn’t remember when she launched her products.

Meghan really has her finger on the pulse. 🙄🙄🙄🙄, talk about being behind the times.🤫

If that is the level of her competencies, and those who work for her, you can understand why everything she turns her hand to is an abject failure

She moves on as soon as shes caught out.

Megs one ability is to charm. From the get go the RF, particularly William saw straight through it. Took the press a bit longer.

When she released she won’t be adored and applauded, she mentally couldn’t handle it and was off.

I suspect the podcasts, productions are over because again, people will know what she’s like and she’s now moving on.
Some people she can keep onboard with the smarm, others unconvinced, she simply walks away from blaming them for any breakdown in the relationship

In someways she reminds me of Trump.

Teflon Don, has an ability to keep going on but can only do so by blaming those around him for any failures and weaponising any criticism. He is hyper sensitive to everything that’s said, but the delusions of grandeur keep him from any self reflection and questioning of his own actions.

Although in fairness to Trump, even he’s managed not to fall out with all his family!

Her Teflon coating is selective

To add a bit more, if I may!

I think Meghan does prefer good publicity of course, but bad publicity is ultimately fine too, as it’s all grist to her mill. For her ambition to be the most famous person in the world. In some ways she reminds me of Katie Price (another Teflon coated who has avoided jail how many times now?!)

As I think @AtIusvue said, if something doesn’t get traction, she simply moves on. It’s quite dizzying. So far this year we’ve had entrepreneur (jam and pancake mix!), wealthy trad wife, A list fashionista (Paris), feminist (fellow-Democrat Gloria Steinham pap visit) and humanitarian (award from some company) and social mover (New York SoHo House).

If she had stuck at one good thing, eg the charity that protects children from harmful social media it could have meant something and achieved something real. But because it’s, mostly anyway, about attention, she can’t stick at it for more than 10 seconds before dashing into the next limelight.

It’s dizzying and gathered pace again after her latest cosmetic work! PS. She’s starting to morph into a completely different “beige” bland face, ironic! It’s all about image and self promotion. And no-one could deny she is successful at self-promotion. For a normal person it would be exhausting and stressful; for a narcissist it’s just another day.

My interest in Meghan has come about from my interest in narcissism, both on a personal level and at a societal, social media level. Markle, as we know, is now back on Instagram and uses it avidly to promote herself, as do many celebrities. It must be like a drug for them. And she has largely got where she is through her “ability to charm”; I can’t imagine any other explanation. However, all the self promotion is ultimately empty, as they have nothing to say. Apart from repeating the words of others in word salad soundbites of course.

I wonder what the next vacuous project will be.

My other interest I guess is in the family dynamics of when a narcissist or otherwise toxic person is part of or joins a family and the destruction that they can unleash. It seems even the Royal family are not exempt! I bet William is chomping at the bit to remove them to the Tower (metaphorically speaking!) once he takes over. It’s a real psychodrama in some ways. As well as, as I have mentioned already, an example of social media, Instagram age, which another poster mentioned a few pages back. The fame of people like Meghan Markle and Katie Price are, arguably, directly linked to it.

Anyway time for another ☕️ 🙂

Will Harry be aware of this? I wonder how this affects him & children. Is he a willing, happy participant & what does the future look like re: him & any meaningful role?

Goodness knows @PinkPanther57 . Their relationship I find quite mysterious in a way. He also is quite a difficult, arrogant character, though also can be charming. I can’t imagine how it works tbh.

Whatever the actual nature of their relationship, they may both have a recognition that they are much more powerful together than apart. I think it’s probably getting too late in their lives to reinvent themselves as individuals. Harry would be a stoner divorcee estranged from his family and country. Unless he found a fabulous woman, retracted everything he said about his family and the UK, and started again - seems unlikely. She might fair better in some ways as she has that “drive”, but without Harry she would have less “draw”.

They both had something the other wanted.

I would say that there was a power imbalance at the start - MM had the looks, intelligence, social sophistication, charisma but most importantly she was explicit about this with PH that she held the power and could walk at any moment.

I expect that was the first time anyone had positioned themselves like that to him and he was maybe relieved / delighted / thrilled to be led by the very attractive, more intelligent, sophisticated older woman who played to his weaknesses and ego promising him that together they would change the world.

Not sure how sustainable the honeymoon period is / was and if or how they have grown together as a couple / parents / business partners - but I would suggest that she has got everything aligned to meet her ambitions which were in place before they met. PH may well be fulfilled supposedly being ‘master of his own destiny’ etc but he appears to be bitter, brittle and backward looking as opposed to appearing inspired and refreshed with his life choices. I don’t have an issue with him choosing to leave the BRF at all - but I am not sure he has emotionally benefited to date - he could have left and lived a more personally enriching lifestyle.

The applause when Meghan took to the stage was very muted 🤔

Will H end up a passenger in own life?